Vaughn P. Drake Jr., a Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at ...

Seventy-six years ago on Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese fleet surprise-attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the home port of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Japanese carrier planes killed 2,403 Americans.

I am a park ranger at World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument (formerly named the USS Arizona Memorial National Memorial). Our story is now of the entire war in the Pacific. We host ...

From Kalaupapa to Pearl Harbor, here are the five National Park Sites in Hawaii that can be accessed for free, though one of them is momentarily off-limits. Discover underrated yet scenic ...

Vaughn Drake Jr., an esteemed Central Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, died last week. Drake died April 7 at the age of 106, according to a news ...

She became the model for the Children’s Peace Monument that stands in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. During her ... which is part of the larger Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Honolulu ...

Lying beneath the surface of the calm waters of Pearl Harbor, just outside downtown Honolulu are the remains of the USS Arizona and the more than 1,000 members of the boat's crew who lost their lives ...

A South Dakota family has been given the chance to say goodbye to one of its members, nearly a century after he was killed during Pearl Harbor ... near Wind Cave National Park before being ...

He said Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima share the same historical significance in that lives were lost in connection with World War Two. National Memorial Park superintendent Tom Leatherman spoke to ...

The Pearl Harbor Visitor Center includes a free parking ... taking the bus or hopping on Waikiki Trolley's Purple Line. Visit the National Park Service's website for additional information.

Last spring, Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese ...